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Pereira Maintains: A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Patrick Creagh (New Directions Ebook) [T]he fact is that I’ve been stricken with misgiving, what I mean is what if those two youngsters are right? In that case they’re...
The Wayno / Piraro Bizarro of today (8/20), depicting a preposterous cartoon event: It’s a Renaissance Faire and a Ren & Stimpy Show animated cartoon (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Wayno says there are 3 in this...
Ceci n’est pas une pipe. Here are a couple of attempts of mine to take moody photos of the geothermal fields behind the horticultural school, by the Fífilbrekka cottage. These are from a new path that was made in the reforestation area...
Toronto’s Otsyuda have been making a name for themselves both as one of the city’s promising new shoegaze/dreampop acts and as an international supergroup of sorts – their collective resume including Russia’s Blankenberge, Colombia’s...
The doctors surgery texted me just twenty four hours after my echocardiogram scan. They said they had received the report from the scan, and asked me to please make an appointment with the GP so he could discuss the results with me. One...
I once read a novel about a cartographer that didnt know that trap streets in maps — intentional fake streets and the likes to catch plagiarisms. That immediate pulled me out of the story and I couldn’t suspend my disbelief anymore, and...
Popular IndieWeb bloggers have been talking about "Hardcore IndieWeb" recently (Neatnik, Brennan). The idea of "hardcore" in this context is doing everything yourself: building a site with pure HTML and CSS using a text editor on your...
SCOUT TROOPER — IMPERIAL PATROL STAR WARS: POWER OF THE JEDI/SAGA (HASBRO) “Although lightly armored, Imperial scout troopers are essentially highly mobile stormtroopers. They patrol perimeters, perform reconnaissance missions, and scout...
This is my 12th blog post for the Blaugust 2026 community blogging project. Join me all this month for more blogging. I love the Mastodon social messaging service. I’m a big fan of the open-source, non-corporate, federated design. Design...
I've had the Steam Machine for about a month at this point, and I think that's long enough for me to give my own opinions.Despite the cost, despite the supposed lack of power, despite the hole burnt through my wallet, despite everything...
by Gideon Marcus Everyone knows it's Windy Everyone is familiar with weather balloons, those high altitude drifters that have been returning meteorological information (and provoking UFO sightings) for nearly 30 years. Now, thanks to the...
That's what Tony Fadell advises. We are used to seeing constraints as problems but they can also be opportunities — to think different and act different.
Seven Seas Entertainment debuted the first collected volume of manga-ka Oshioshio's My Deer Friend Nokotan in 2020. Despite the series running for eight volumes and leading to an anime adaptation, I had not heard of it until comics...
tag(s): #link-post #random-thoughts A couple days ago I was reading a post by Javier, Transferring Knowledge. I agree with most of points made. The last paragraph stuck with me, because I think what it says can be generalized beyond only...
Today. Today is a day to be quiet. To hold my own. To put the soap box away. To not let something I read online get the better of me. Today is a day for calm reflecting. For contemplation the quiet moments between doing and not doing....